Astrobiology—Test life-related hypotheses in the context of another specific kind of geologic terrain.
Directed by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology and life sciences.
Frontiers of Astrobiology is a non-fiction book edited by astronomers Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine, and José Funes that summarizes the state of our understanding of life on Earth, the search for exoplanets, and the prospects for life elsewhere.
He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and he was one of five principal investigators in the NASA-sponsored NSCORT program in exobiology.